Threw
//θɹuː// verb, slang
verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past of throw form-of, past
- 2 past participle of throw colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past
""But I'd have threw lead at him if I'd been scared enough. I wasn't scared enough.""
Example
More examples"A fanatic threw a bomb at the king's coach."
Etymology
From Middle English threw, from Old English þrēaw (first and third person past tense of þrāwan), from West Germanic *þreu, from Northwest Germanic *þrerō, from Proto-Germanic *þeþrō (first and third person past tense of *þrēaną), reduplication of *þrēaną.
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